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2010GRADUATIONADDRESSby Adetola Olatunji, Class of 2004Each year, an alumnus/a with six years of post-Park experience addressesthe graduating class. Following this Park School tradition, Adetola Olatunjisaluted 19 ninth-graders at the 122nd graduation exercises in June. Adetolajoined the Class of 2004 as a short, shy sixth-grader, but found her voice inJanice Allen’s chorus for eighth- and ninth-graders and established a GradeIV and V dance club with classmate Liz Wilsker. She carried her passionfor singing and dancing to Milton Academy and Princeton University,where she sings with the Princeton University Gospel Ensemble and servesas the artistic director of the Black Arts Company. Adetola is a pre-lawstudent — studying political economics with minors in both African studiesand Spanish — and she plans to pursue international law after graduatingin 2011.Good morning! To the trustees, Mr. Katz, faculty, staff,alumni, students, and their families, thank you so much forinviting me here. It is truly an honor to have been given theopportunity to speak with you this morning, and I am humbled tohave been chosen to share with you some of the experiences I havehad in the past few years. And most importantly, to the Class of2010, congratulations to you on such an amazing accomplishment!You made it, and we are all here because we are so excited to celebrateyour wonderful achievements thus far. I have a few hopes foryou especially by the end of this speech: first of all, that you rememberat least 30 percent of it. Don’t even worry about it, though; I’ll try tokeep this interesting. But more importantly, I hope that as youreflect on the past three, four, or even 11 years for some of you, youThe Park Bulletin | Fall 2010 7